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...For Meg Whitman, HP Enterprise chief executive, the software sale further slims the US technology beast, after it split off its computing and printer division via a demerger....
...Slim as it was, the commercial exclusion zone around a new movie often felt like the last buffer around film itself....
...“There has been a lot of disruption but there has never been a lack of consumer demand for quality news content,” says Jim Bankoff, chief executive of Vox Media....
...The chances of tax reform advancing this year are slim to none, and it may be very difficult to reach a deal during Mr Obama’s administration....
...The Omaha-based company, which makes Slim Jim meat snacks and Hunt’s ketchup, said it expected adjusted second-quarter net income to be around 55 cents a share, against analyst expectations of 63 cents....
...“It’s ironically the one part of the body that I think appears slim even when the rest is not.” ——————————————- www.sunony.com www.vionnet.com www.ysl.com www.net-a-porter.com www.rolandmouret.com...
...Additional reporting by Elizabeth Rigby, Jim Pickard and David Oakley...
...Net income at the maker of Hunt’s ketchup and Slim Jim meat snacks fell to $120m, or 29 cents per share, during the three months to February 24, down from $280.1m, or 67 cents, during the same period last...
...Antonis Samaras, leader of the New Democrats, abandoned talks after 12 hours despite his party’s winning a slim lead among nine rivals (Wall Street Journal)....
...Net income at ConAgra, which makes brands such as Slim Jim and Chef Boyardee, fell 13.4 per cent year-on-year to $174.7m, or 41 cents a share, as sales rose 8.1 per cent to $3.4bn....
...Jim Moore, creative director of American GQ, agrees: “We’re in a slim culture now, and it feels like the one thing that was holding up the slimness of the entire wardrobe was the short.”...
...The company, whose brands include Slim Jim meat snacks and Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn, raised its cost inflation outlook for the year by 2 percentage points to a range of 9-10 per cent for its consumer...
...Jim Rogers, chief executive of Duke Energy, has said he is interested in more deals in the fragmented US power market....
...ConAgra owns brands including Chef Boyardee canned products and Slim Jim meat snacks and has been under pressure in the last year from weak responses to its promotions and accelerating commodity inflation...
...But chances of getting any of the bills passed by Congress before November, let alone providing any kind of boost to the economy, are slim....
...Tanner Krolle has created the Sportsman holdall in leather (£895) or canvas (£595) with a matching “drop in bag”: a slim attaché case with a zip and handles. The size is 28cm x 56cm x 25 cm....
...The maker of Hebrew National hot dogs and Slim Jim snacks recorded revenues of $3.1bn, below the $3.15bn expected....
...After that, in an even darker box somewhere in the depths of the 12th arrondissement: hip-hop mogul-turned-designer Kanye West is seated in the second row of the Comme des Garçons show behind Jim Gold, Bergdorf...
...What has also helped CNN to boost profits by double-digit percentages for its fifth straight year is diversi-fication, according to Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide....
...This newspaper’s search for the best business book ever has thrown up Jim Collins’ Good to Great and Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, among others....
...Jim Greenwood, president of the BiotechnologyIndustry Association, said the proposed SEC and PCAOB reforms would provide only a “marginal improvement” for emerging biotech companies....
...He joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps in college but was told that his chances of flying a fighter were very slim unless he entered the Air Force Academy....
...Third sibling Jim is now also on the board....
...In addition, the company failed to fill some customer orders for popular, high-margin products such as Banquet Crock-Pot Classics, Egg Beaters Reddi-wip and Slim Jim dried beef snacks....
...Jim O'Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, has become more bearish about the world economy as leading indicators, including Goldman's own, have shown growth slowing....
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